The Fappenning 2.0?
If yes, hence beware, y'all should non click whatever link promising Fappenning celebrity photos.
Cybercriminals oft accept wages of intelligence headlines inwards social club to trap victims too play a joke on them into next links that may Pb to websites containing malware or survey scams.
Last week, a few private photos of Emma Watson too Amanda Seyfried — ranging from regular selfies to explicitly sexual photos — were circulating on the Internet forums, including Reddit too 4chan, alongside UK's TV presenter Holly Willoughby too USA thespian Rose McGowan amid the latest alleged victims.
Now, according to the safety researchers from MalwareBytes, scammers are exploiting this novel batch of leaked celebrity photos too videos past times using their stolen selfies to lure victims on social media sites too making dollars.
Also Read: Hackers Threaten to Remotely Wipe 300 Million iPhones Unless Apple Pays Ransom
One of the scam campaigns Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Kardashian, Kate Upton too many hundreds of other celebrities past times hacking their Apple's iCloud accounts.
Once the app is installed, y'all are hence sent to a site that serves no role other than enabling crooks to brand coin from affiliate marketing too advertising link clicks.
The site rapidly grays out, yell for y'all to click even hence about other link that eventually lands y'all on a survey page that promises to wages y'all alongside an Amazon gift carte every bit presently every bit y'all manus over your details.
While y'all are looking through all these links, the creepy app spams out the same tweets from your account, leading your followers to the same The Fappening 2.0 scam y'all roughshod for.
So far close 7,000 users attain got larn a victim of the latest scam.
If yes, hence beware, y'all should non click whatever link promising Fappenning celebrity photos.
Cybercriminals oft accept wages of intelligence headlines inwards social club to trap victims too play a joke on them into next links that may Pb to websites containing malware or survey scams.
Last week, a few private photos of Emma Watson too Amanda Seyfried — ranging from regular selfies to explicitly sexual photos — were circulating on the Internet forums, including Reddit too 4chan, alongside UK's TV presenter Holly Willoughby too USA thespian Rose McGowan amid the latest alleged victims.
Now, according to the safety researchers from MalwareBytes, scammers are exploiting this novel batch of leaked celebrity photos too videos past times using their stolen selfies to lure victims on social media sites too making dollars.
Also Read: Hackers Threaten to Remotely Wipe 300 Million iPhones Unless Apple Pays Ransom
One of the scam campaigns Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Kardashian, Kate Upton too many hundreds of other celebrities past times hacking their Apple's iCloud accounts.
Don't Install Any App To View Leaked Fappening Images — It's a Malware!
The latest scams spreading on Twitter read:"VIDEO: WWE Superstar Paige Leaked Nude Pics too Videos"
"Incredible!!! Leaked Nude Pics too Videos of WWE Superstar Paige!!!!: [url] (Accept the App First)"For accessing the content, scammers told y'all to get-go install a twitter app called "Viral News." In the hope of a glimpse of Paige's nude video, victims tricked into giving the malicious app permission to access their Twitter account, update their profile too postal service tweets on their behalf.
Once the app is installed, y'all are hence sent to a site that serves no role other than enabling crooks to brand coin from affiliate marketing too advertising link clicks.
The site rapidly grays out, yell for y'all to click even hence about other link that eventually lands y'all on a survey page that promises to wages y'all alongside an Amazon gift carte every bit presently every bit y'all manus over your details.
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"Suffice to say, filling this inwards hands your personal data to marketers – too at that topographic point is no guarantee y'all volition larn whatever pictures at the cease of it," said Chris Boyd, a malware intelligence analyst at Malwarebytes.
Malware Hijacks Twitter Accounts to Spread Fappening Spam
So far close 7,000 users attain got larn a victim of the latest scam.
"As freshly leaked pictures too video of celebrities proceed to travel dropped online, hence likewise volition scammers seek to brand uppercase out of image-hungry clickers. Apart from the fact that these images attain got been taken without permission hence y'all genuinely shouldn’t travel hunting for them, anyone going earthworks on less than reputable sites is pretty much declaring opened upward flavor on their computers," Boyd concluded.Here are about useful tips y'all tin follow inwards an endeavor to protect yourself from scams shared through social media:
- Don't accept the bait. Stay away from promotions of "exclusive," "shocking" or "sensational" photos or footage. If it sounds likewise outlandish to travel true, it is in all likelihood a scam.
- Hover over links to run across their existent destination. Before y'all click on whatever link, mouseover the link to run across where it'll accept you. Do non click on links leading to unfamiliar sites.
- Don't trust your friends online. It mightiness non genuinely travel your friends who are liking or sharing scam links to photos. Their draw of piece of job concern human relationship may attain got been hijacked past times scammers.
- Raise your Eyebrows when asked for something inwards return. Beware of whatever site that asks y'all to download too install software inwards social club to persuasion anything else, inwards this case, nude photos too videos of Paige. This is a known tactic of spreading scam.